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Lúcio Alves (Lúcio Ciribelli Alves - 1/28/1927 - 8/3/1993) was a great interpreter of Brazilian music. Tom Jobim said he is "a formidable singer, he deserved the highest popular acclamation, but paid the price of being an artist ahead of his time." João Gilberto was a declared fan of his singing interpretation and his vocal and harmonic arrangements and Alves made some arrangements for Gilberto's Garotos da Lua and Gilberto lived with him at Raul Pompéia street in Rio. When Chega de Saudade was released, the first person to whom Gilberto showed the album was Alves. Alves always had music...
Best known for his tenure as vocalist with Scar Symmetry, Christian is a renowned multi-instrumentalist with an extreme vocal range. As demonstrated on "Dominion" by Scar Symmetry (from their Symmetric in Design album), Christian has a unique vocal style, with both a notably wide clean range and extremely low death growls.
Well known for his work in other band such as Incapacity, Quest of Aidance, Miseration, Torchbearer, Unmoored, Orchards Of Saturn, Solution .45, Angel Blake, Syconaut, Solar Dawn, and Carnalized, Christian manifests his talents in a variety of ways including drums, vocals, guitars and bass.
He has also made guest...
Paul Gonsalves (1920-1974) was a U.S. jazz tenor saxophonist, best known for his work with Duke Ellington.
Born on 12th July 1920 in Brockton, Massachusetts to Cape Verdean parents, Gonsalves' first instrument was the guitar. He grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts and played as a member of the Sabby Lewis Orchestra. His first professional engagement in Boston was with the same group on tenor saxophone, with whom he played before and after his military service during World War II. Before joining Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1950, he had also played with the big bands of Count Basie (1947-1949) and...
Francisco Alves (Rio de Janeiro, August 19, 1898 — Pindamonhangaba, September 27, 1952) was maybe the most successful singer of all time in Brazil. In his career span of 35 years of success (interrupted by his death in a car accident), he was the singer who recorded more 78 rpm albums in Brazil than anyone: 526 albums with 983 songs. As a composer, he left around 132 songs, but many of them were later proved to have been bought from composers. Even then, just one of his certified creations (his signature tune, "A Voz do Violão," with lyrics by Horácio...
